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Let’s hear it for the Stomp Brigade! It’s almost time and your captain is getting revved up. We are bringin’ it for our little Reese! Check out our awesome shirts. If you don’t have one yet, we will have it ready for you Sat morning 9am at the event site. Visit our team site ifContinue reading

A crani for another day

I have fought using their terminology, but I find the more I use it here the more they listen. Found an explanation for her surgery on Web MD and I think it actually does a really good job of keeping it simple. The temporal lobe resection is the craniotomy or “crani” surgery we came inContinue reading “A crani for another day”

We have curls again! Grids and blood gone, staples in. They said she did wonderfully and we are stable. Have to watch the bleeding for a few days. She is getting pumped full of vitamins and things to help boost her system. Now we just have to wait to see how she heals.

Holding on

There is no amount of space big enough to hold our fears right now. They just took Reese back for emergency surgery to remove the blood pooling outside her brain again. They feel she may have a bigger issue that needs to be looked at so tomorrow’s epilepsy surgery is postponed. This is not aContinue reading “Holding on”

Female Bodies: A Weighty Issue

fozmeadows: Hypothesis: We have, as a society, such a completely disordered, distorted perception of female bodies that the vast majority of people are incapable of recognising what “overweight” actually looks like on a woman, let alone “healthy”. As such, we’re now at a point where women are not only… Female Bodies: A Weighty Issue

Our little warrior says good night from the ICU. Sitting up for first time today. Everything is stable and we are looking forward to lots of talks with our doctors tomorrow to prep for Tuesday’s surgery. #epilepsywarrior